People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAs long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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